Man Denied Bail In Tourist Attack

A Broward Circuit Court judge on Saturday denied bail to the man charged with the kidnapping and attempted murder of British tourist Kathryn Jones.

Timothy Wallace, 19, will be assigned an attorney within three weeks, and then another bond hearing may be held, said Wayne Corry, a Broward Assistant Public Defender.

Circuit Court Judge Joseph Price said he found probable cause to hold Wallace on kidnapping and attempted murder charges filed against him Friday. Police took him into custody Thursday night.

Wallace also is charged with stealing a gray station wagon, which police say he used May 12 to abduct Jones from a phone booth in Miami Beach.

Jones, 27, a Southampton hospital nurse on her first trip to the United States, was listed in serious but stable condition Saturday at Memorial Hospital in Hollywood.

Wallace, a drifter thought to be from Maryland, reportedly came to Broward County three months ago, Corry said. Legal documents show that Wallace was living in Dania and had worked as a kitchen helper at the SeaFair dining and shopping complex on Dania beach for the past month.

Witnesses had reported seeing him abduct Jones from a phone booth early May 12. Hours later, a woman on a street corner in Bay Harbor Islands in Dade County said Wallace stopped to ask for directions to Interstate 95, while Jones was being forcibly held on his lap.

Jones was found May 13 in woods in Hollywood. She had been beaten about the head, documents show.